What Goes Up Must … Go Up
An audio “illusion.” The pitch increases, and seems to continue when you replay the clip.
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This phenomenon is known as Shepard’s paradox; the ending tones are the same as the beginning ones, so it’s the auditory equivalent of Escher’s “Ascending and Descending” perpetual staircase.
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